FAA: NOTAM System that Caused January Failure Cannot Be Fully Upgraded Before 2030

There are way too many NOTAMS issued anyway. You can thank the Lawyers. I was flying into Sundance OK and had to listen to a litany of inop light bulbs on various windmills in a field of hundreds. When I used to fly transoceanic, I got dozens of pages of NOTAMS about nitnoy little defects at airports that were not even close to my OTS track. There are so many that the important ones are buried and overlooked.

The complete absence of leadership and ability at the FAA is appalling.. The corruption (Boeing) and abject stupidity are stunning..

Time to find new IT staff and managers.

The U.S. won a World War in less than 4 years--starting from virtually nothing to building training and operational bases--training recruits, ramping up factories, designing modern weapons, deploying troops worldwide, and coordinating with our allies.

And today--we can't even fix a software problem in SEVEN YEARS? This says a lot about what we've become!

Pretty sad state of affairs.

Give it to a private software house and they will have it done by the end of this year. The government can't do anything on time or in cost.

...really, that headline doesn't surprise me...

If you think something can't possibly be screwed up, just give it to the government ...

2030, you have to be joking, it can be done in 6 months

Has anyone checked the METARS system?

Do it now or you are fired.

The more you centralize authority and bureaucratize it, The more it costs you to do less and less

Surely, there are a couple of kids in their parent's basements that can fix it before then.

Its all about the $$$.

Throw a bunch of money at a problem and hope. It's the government way!

Fake news. Mayor Pete will have it fixed before summer.

Maybe Phil Washington (the administration's new pick to lead the FAA) will be able to sort it out.
That is, if he doesn't go to jail over the current corruption case he's involved in.

Do it now or you are fired. Is there no one that defends the taxpayer?

I know….let’s put this same government in charge of EVERYTHING since they do such a smashing job at the stuff they do already!

Here's the last time Notam were updated.


2006


https://www.flightglobal.com/notams-poised-to-enter-digital-age-with-faa-and-eurocontrol-set-to-modernise-50-year-old-syst/70450.article

don't make NOTAM physical notification for commercial traffic....accept verbal confirmations.

Maybe if the FAA better organized the data into something similar like the Dewey decimal system and plotted it graphically via a GIS system, it would be more intuitive and possibly (depending on the mission type) can easily be ignored. If I'm flying VFR day, why would I need to know that a taxiway marker is out?

While we're on pipe dream stuff can the FAA encode the ATIS as a digital sub carrier to allow capable radios to receive it and display as text (a light version of ACARS, more like how HD Radio works)

The FAAs budget for 2023 is over 23 Billion dollars and the can`t get the NOTAM problem resolved before 2030. They all need to go back to school.

And here I thought they fixed all the problems when they changed the M to “Missions”.

We have asked the FAA to list NOTAMs by importance for many many years but the continue to list " the light on tower 5 miles away is inoperative" but leave "runway 26 is closed" way down in the NOTAM list.

Something should be updated 10 years ago...

I share my fellow aviators frustration at the incomprehensible mess the NOTAM system has become. And then there is the problem of our dear FAA suddenly suddenly throwing TFR's at us. My practice these days is to file IFR or at least request "Flight Following".

To busy attending classes mandated by mayor pete